Salience has three methods of categorizing text: query topics, concept topics, and document categories. I’ll be going through all three using a New York Times article called “China Says Former Security Chief Is Under Investigation“. Query […]

Classification is a few value proposition for text analytics – it allows users to quickly drill into articles of interest and look at trends over time. Setting up a classification scheme can be a lot […]

David Cameron’s recent announcement of his plan to automatically block porn across all of England has certainly stirred up its share of controversy. When asked how exactly he planned to enact this filtration and what, […]

This is probably the coolest new thing that we have in our toolbox. All of our customers like the idea of “magic” functionality. We have a long tradition of providing functionality that is available and […]

Here’s the fourth video taken from our LUG conference.Smartbrief is one of the first adopters of our Concept Topics wikipedia-based classification technology. In this presentation, Zack Mully discusses how concept topics help them sift through […]

In about 6 minutes, I’ll show you how easy it is to configure a concept topic that classifies documents by two different classifiers:1) Is a country mentioned that is in the Middle East?2) Are there […]

In an earlier post, Jeff Catlin described analysis that we did around Bally’s vs. Bellagio using publicly available customer reviews. We did this analysis using something called “categories”, which is basically a fancy name for […]